Definition of Modernnesses

1. modernness [n] - See also: modernness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernnesses

modernistic
modernists
modernities
modernity
modernizable
modernization
modernizations
modernize
modernized
modernizer
modernizers
modernizes
modernizing
modernly
modernness
modernnesses (current term)
moderns
moders
modes
modes of thought
modest proposal
modest proposals
modester
modestest
modesties
modestly
modestness
modesty panel

Literary usage of Modernnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1908)
"Crude modernnesses disappeared; the nave was filled with deeper and deeper gloom; and a white altar, for instance, lit by invisible lights from the side, ..."

2. The Spirit of Rome: Leaves from a Diary by Vernon Lee (1906)
"... behind those walls of Rome, are all of us, bringing our absurd modernnesses, our far-fetched things of civilisation into the solemn, starved, lousy, ..."

3. Baldwin: Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations by Vernon Lee (1886)
"The obvious retort was that, not being so old as Sir Anthony, he could not be an idealist; for, to Carlo's mind, saturated with cosmopolitan modernnesses, ..."

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